Word: stationing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...I.L.G.W.U.'s domain embraces five buildings in New York (including the old Tammany Hall), 16 in other cities. It runs three FM stations, has just bought an AM station. Its educational department is the nation's best, and the union offers scholarships to Harvard and Wisconsin to deserving young unionists. Its recreation program runs everything from hikes to dance groups...
...Ideas. Co-chairman of the Workshop with Snyder, and a recognized leader in the field of religious radio, is energetic, balding Everett C. Parker, 36. He was working for a radio station in Chicago when a Methodist minister asked him to help get a sponsor for a religious show. Parker became so interested in the field that he began experimenting with new program ideas, ended by getting 152 churches to cooperate in a regular broadcast. Parker quit his job to study for the ministry, was ordained a Congregational pastor in 1943, and began to devote his full time...
...Mamie was a little confused about identifying Jim. (It was "forgetfulness," explained relatives, a trait which made it necessary several years later to send Mamie to the Elgin State Hospital for the insane, where she died in 1947.) But later she got quite positive about it. At the police station, Montgomery recalls, he was beaten up by the cops and the prosecutor told him, "if you were down in Georgia or Mississippi ... we would turn you over to the K.K.K., and we are liable to do it up here." The Ku Klux Klan was strong in the Midwest in those...
...mild-mannered plugger, Murphy has no hobbies except work, has built his entire reputation within the Burlington system. Before joining the Burlington in 1914, he strung telephone lines, later worked as a laborer, station helper and agent for the old Iowa Central Railroad. After a noncombat stint as an airplane pilot in World War I, he came back to the "Q" as a division engineer and toiled faithfully at assorted jobs, touching every rung on the ladder as he climbed. If hard work could keep the "Q" highballing, Harry Murphy...
Handout. In New Orleans, a holdup man scooped in $45 from a gas station, then forced $10 on Attendant Nathaniel Young...